Any browser will be affected by that JS issue. JavaScript VM code is largely identical across platforms. See this post by a member of the Chrome team [1]. Hard

Any browser will be affected by that JS issue. JavaScript VM code is largely identical across platforms. See this post by a member of the Chrome team [1]. Hardware accelerated rendering (accelerated layers) is in fact enabled by default on the Mac. Unfortunately, Mac OS X has no equivalent to Direct2D (that's enabled for production, that is). You can enable hardware accelerated layers on Linux via about:config; they work, but they're disabled by default due to frequent driver crashes. You do get something approximating Direct2D on Linux Firefox via XRender, if your graphics drivers support it. [1]: http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2010/05/fast.html http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2010/05/fast.ht...